I cannot handle this anymore....my laptop WAP connection just drops and drops and drops and....(aka, please help!)

pg22

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Hello,

I live in a one bedroom apartment and have a home network that consists of my desktop, a PS2, and my laptop. I bought the MS Wireless Networking Laptop Kit (phew) and as you may have guessed, my laptop is on the wireless connection. Now, in a physical sense, my laptop, sitting in the living room, in no more than 15 feet away from the wireless router. There is a wall in the way, but that should be no big deal.

Anyway, this is the problem: the connection just drops. Over and over. What confuses me is that one day the connection could be rock solid all day, and then something like last night, where it disconnects every 30 seconds. It's driving me crazy. So I don't know if it's a network thing (as in my settings) or a physical thing, which I wouldn't think since the laptop is so close to the router.

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Schola

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Are you Using Windows XP on the laptop? If so trying turning off the MS Windows wireless automatic configuration. It sometimes is screwy with things. Try that
 

pg22

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hmmm...what an odd suggestion. Why may that be?

Regardless, I've done as you said and rebooted and haven't been dropped yet.

*crosses fingers*